TPRC 2009 - The 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy TPRC 2009

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Category TPRC 2009

Deadline: March 31, 2009 | Date: September 25, 2009

Venue/Country: Virginia, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Hosted by the Center for Technology and the Law

George Mason University Law School

Arlington, Virginia

Friday, September 25, 2009 through Sunday, September 27, 2009

www.tprc.org

TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information and internet

policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary practitioners

and researchers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit

organizations together with policymakers. The purpose of the conference

is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to

familiarize researchers with the knowledge requirements of policymakers

and industry. The conference agenda will consist of papers selected from

reviewed, submitted abstracts, student papers and posters, and selected

panel submissions.

TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers, panel proposals, student

papers and posters for presentation at the 2009 conference. Proposals

should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to

communication and information policy, and may be from any disciplinary

perspective. TPRC seeks submissions of disciplinary, comparative,

multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary excellence. Subject areas of

particular interest include, but are not limited to the following:

(Click on topic below for topic descriptions.)

1. Network Competition, Policy and Management

2. Next Generation all-IP Networks: Policy, Regulatory,

Architectural and Societal Issues

3. Spectrum Policy

4. Societal Issues: Universality and Affordable Access

5. The Transformation and Future of Media in an Age of User- and

Community-Produced Content

6. The Transformation and Future of Intellectual Property and

Digital Rights

7. Privacy, Security, Identity and Trust

8. Internet Governance and Institutional Strategies for Information

Policy

9. International and Jurisdictional Issues

10. The Mobile Phone and its Impacts

11. Other Emerging Topics are highly encouraged

Submissions are due by March 31, 2009. Abstracts, panel proposals and

poster submissions must be submitted electronically at

http://www.tprc.org . Abstracts are not to exceed 500 words. For posters

and paper abstracts, please identify the methods, central ideas, and

outcomes (obtained or expected) of the research. Responses will be made

by May 15, 2009. Selected papers will be due to TPRC on August 15th and

authors are expected to present the accepted submission.

Students are encouraged to submit papers for the student paper

competition. Full Student papers must be submitted by April 30, 2009.

Poster sessions will be available to enable the display of current

student work.

We also welcome theme and industry-specific but not vendor-specific

panel proposals. These should include the Panel topic, a brief abstract,

the name of the Panel Moderator and an initial list of proposed

panelists. The Panel proposals should be submitted by March 31, 2009.

2009TPRC Sponsors: Host: George Mason University School of Law; Gold:

Comcast, Verizon; Silver: AT&T, Google, Microsoft, NextGenWeb.org;

Bronze: CTIA, NCTA, T-Mobile Academic Sponsors: Georgetown University,

University of Florida PURC and PPRC, Michigan State University Quello

Center, Syracuse University, University of Colorado Silicon Flatirons

Center and the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program

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Rahul Tongia, Ph.D.

Senior Systems Scientist

Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society (COS)

School of Computer Science (ISR) /

Dept. of Engineering & Public Policy

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

tel: 412-268-5619

fax: 412-268-2338

email: tongiacmu.edu

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia